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The 4 Types of Small Businesses, and Why Each One Matters

Harvard Business Review

An important but less well-documented type is comprised of an estimated 1 million small businesses that are part of commercial and government supply chains (referred to as suppliers). For example, a “mom and pop” Main Street shop has different financing needs than a high‐tech startup.

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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

And, through linkages including supply chains (in 2009 multinationals purchased about $7 trillion in intermediate inputs from companies in America), multinationals enhance the performance of companies throughout the U.S. The average compensation that year of their 27.3 manufacturing employment by 52.5%, or 3.3 million workers, at U.S.